Born in Hungary

• an interest in the folk music of his native country.

• his mother was a piano teacher

• As a child prodigy, he became an accomplishes pianist an at early age and performEd

Born in New York

• Studied in Paris with famous compositional teacher Nadia Boulanger for three years

• was fascinated with Jazz

Born in France

• Entered the conservatory at 11 years of age

• Associated with Impressionistic music

• As a young composer, he went against the idea of using major and minor scales in favor the

Medieval modes, whole-tone, and pentatonic scales.

Born in Russia

• from a musical family (father was an opera singer)

• achieved early success through his affiliation with Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (composer)

Began in the 1920's (the “Jazz” Age) in New Orleans and captured the spirit of the roaring twenties as a

fast and syncopated rhythmic music. The musicians would sway back and forth as they played this hot

stirring music as couples danced. Jazzed music is based on blues music (the penatonic scale).

music that does not conatin a key or tonal center.

Invented by Arnold Schoenberg. All twelve tones within an

octave are arranged into a series or row, which provides all of the melodic and harmonic material on

which a composition is based

several different rhythmic patterns sounded simultaneously.

Chords that contain 6 or 7 notes. Two different chords that are sounded simultaneously.

the use of two keys (two tonal centers) at the same time as the key(s) of a piece of

music.

an unstable sound that is produced when notes are sounded simultaneously

a five-note scale that is the basis of blues music, jazz, and all folk music styles

Chromatic scale

Whole tone scale

: an artistic expression of the subconscious, and the dark, abnoral

nature of the human mind.